That’s quite the stretch but I also didn’t expect a brain worm to be nominated for secretary of health

Ha tell him the internet says good luck, hope he likes the taste of lead?

Ninja Edit: not a threat, just seems like someone who enjoys eating lead. Lead paints, lead fumes, other lead sources. Lead damages the body and mind in all manner of ways.

I’m sure it’ll be fine. Right guys? Its just a hole in the ground. Nothing could possibly go wrong with little oversight right,?

Oh shit you’re right. My brain just full on ignored that I guess, than you!

What’s frustrating about that is we now have alternatives to 100LL, and it still hasn’t been phased out.

While expensive and would likelu make a lot of people really angry - regulators should have mandated that any non-diesal or non-turbine aircraft get scrapped. I would believe those fuel alternatives would have been found much quicker and be in use much earlier.

Ahhh, so it is the guy from the Propublica article.

They didn’t mention his name, but this is clearly him.

but also due to decades of leaded gasoline and leaded water pipes, we still have toxic levels of lead in the air, soil, and groundwater in many food-producing regions.

And there it is. Leaded gasoline.

Leaded pipes can be replaced, or water can be treated (iirc) to prevent it from leeching lead. Natural lead is far from uncommon, but usually is not in a form that ends up ingested.

But because they added lead to make it easier to produce engines that didn’t knock, we are paying the price for it world wide and to this day.

You mean the same people who regularly shoot unarmed black people, do all kinds of shitty things to get poor people in jail, and work for an institution originally implemented to catch slaves are led by a militant racist?

Color me surprised. Almost like that was obvious a long ass time ago.

No no see the problem is that you have money, and you need to give them that money otherwise they can’t get more money

I’m not going to argue he wasn’t an expert. The program is designed for them. The problem isnt people like him. In fact, the problem isn’t any of the workers I’ve worked with either.

The problem is that outsourcing staffing agencies use the H1-B visa to hire out to bigger companies looking for a cheap fast way to get things working.

By law, the employer sponsoring an H1-B holder has to pay competitive wages for the work they will do. The staffing agencies do that by paying the people they bring in pretty low and similar wages. Of course, the agencies pocket the difference from the contract and what they are actually paying these workers. In practice, even those wages are lower than what an FTE should get paid.

It has a compounding effect on people who are permanent residents or citizens: it’s an effective way to suppress wages artificially for a lot of these jobs. And of course, many of these H1-B holders get the boot right at the end of 4 or 5 years because then things get dicey about sponsoring them for permanent residence, and that is when costs start really going up.

We really don’t need to expand the H1-B cap, and it is in desperate need of stricter regulation.

The reason this topic is one that “sounds” like one that “both the left and right” agree on is that it’s for entirely different reasons. The right comes at it from the racist “they took r jerbs” aspect, and the left comes at it from the anti-capitalistic exploitation aspect.

You don’t have to look further than who advocates for expanding the H1-B program.

I’ll copy the same response I gave below. Essentially, the H1-B program is intended for that. That is not how it is being used.

You aren’t wrong on that part. That’s what the H1-B program is designed for. In practice, corporations have exploited the intent of it and instead used it to select very narrowly trained software developers, it workers, and technicians instead of Ph. ds, inventors of specific techniques, or experts with rare and niche technology.

Out of 30 or so I have worked with, I have only worked with one true expert. He was an optics dude who knew specific techniques for using TI DLP to create 3 dimensional images on a transparent plane (I think it was just acrylic). In what I could observe, it was not obvious that he was being exploited, and if I remember right, he was compensated to the limits of the visa, and only brought back on his terms.

You aren’t wrong on that part. That’s what the H1-B program is designed for. In practice, corporations have exploited the intent of it and instead used it to select very narrowly trained software developers, it workers, and technicians instead of Ph. ds, inventors of specific techniques, or experts with rare and niche technology.

Out of 30 or so I have worked with, I have only worked with one true expert. He was an optics dude who knew specific techniques for using TI DLP to create 3 dimensional images on a transparent plane (I think it was just acrylic). In what I could observe, it was not obvious that he was being exploited, and if I remember right, he was compensated to the limits of the visa, and only brought back on his terms.

That’s pretty obvious to anyone who has to work with H1Bs. They are far from technical experts, but they know enough in their one very limited breadth of knowledge that they can do certain things quickly and for extremely cheap.

Then they use the far more expensive FTE engineers to fix things obviously outside their scope of expertise. This is the part that is still “too” expensive for Musk. The “bet” is that with a sufficient number of H1-Bs you can have enough to have each one contribute their limited expertise and interface with the work of another H1-B.

The optimization, if my numbers are right - is that you should need 2-3 H1-Bs to replace a single more entry-level FTE engineer. 3-5 H1-Bs could replace a Senior Software Engineer in some cases.

The goal is to get these H1-Bs here, basically get them to do grunt work, and give them education materials to shore up what they lack. In a free market, this would make them far more valuable, but the H1-Bs are locked into their price point. Dissenters get blacklisted and deported.

You know, I’m getting a bit hungry.

They really don’t. They look like they were drawn by a 7 year old.

My 7 year old thinks they’re absolutely great. His reasoning: “because that’s exactly how I would design it!” He proceeded to draw a cybertruck indistinguishable from the thing you see in real life. I was horrified, because it proved to me everything I needed to know about the vehicles design.

Elon Musk drew it himself, and told the engineers exactly how to make it. And because he lacks any apparent skill, his drawing ended up looking exactly like a 7-year olds imaginary truck.

The dude was 74, and pissed he lost an election to the first incumbent?

So he shoots himself?

That… Well. Ok I have no fucking idea how it clears much up, but he didn’t like that outcome by the look of it.

Well guess that means he’s guilty!

Of, what exactly?

Correct, but they still have to convince a judge to issue that secret warrant.

The judge would require probable cause, which doesn’t have to be slam dunk evidence, but it does still have to be obtained legally.

OP was saying that the FBI could easily wiretap, but in order to make the evidence legally permitted in court, they’d still need probable cause to get the secret warrant that would allow them to do the wiretap.

It’s sort of a loop-hole-in-a-loop-hole with the courts.

Usually the FBI just has to use the non-legal wiretap to point them to a good source of probable cause. Then they issue that to the judge, get their secret warrant, then make the non-legal wiretap legal.

Oh good. I’m so glad to hear that.

And the world is a little bit worse off without him. I’m glad he doesn’t have to watch the fresh hell that is going to come of this country, must have been difficult enough to watch Trump’s win.